Jake Loo

@FurqanR @thirdweb Thanks - definitely. Always down for it!

@jakeloo @thirdweb Great working with you, was an incredible journey. I'll still call you on walks and talk about random tech :). Excited for you to explore and get obsessed with something fun!

I've stepped down from @thirdweb. After 4+ years as co-founder and CTO, building this company from the ground up, scaling the team to 50+, shipping tools developers need to build onchain apps, it's been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I got to work alongside some genuinely brilliant people across engineering, product, business, and marketing. The kind of people who challenged me, inspired me, and made me better at what I do. Lucky to have learned from every one of them, and especially grateful to have built this alongside @FurqanR an incredible co-founder and partner. The crypto industry looks nothing like it did when we started. The use case has sharpened: disrupting financial rails. I'm excited to watch the team take thirdweb to the next level. I'll always be cheering from the sidelines. At thirdweb, we built and deployed multiple AI agents across our product and org. I watched AI go from a nice-to-have to something that fundamentally changed how we worked. That experience shifted my thinking. In early 2025, I only trusted AI with non-critical parts of the codebase. That has changed. Over the last couple of months, I've trusted it to build critical-path systems. It still demands proper system design, planning, and testing. But the gap between what AI can do and what we let it do is closing fast. I don't think anything matters more than AI right now. Not as hype, but as a practical shift in how software gets built and used, how teams operate, how entire industries reorganize. So I'm going all in. Right now, i'm researching, experimenting, and building in AI. If you're working on something interesting, I'd love to hear about it -- let's connect!

@FarzaTV 🤠

I'm going to teach a group of people how to build their first app with AI this week using Codex. I'll do a live tutorial, then we'll all cowork + build. if you don't have an idea to work on, dw I'll help with that too. If you wanna join the call, reply with your fav emoji :-)

@Marfuenn thats the way

@jakeloo Literally going through a re-write of the app to optimize for agents!

software engineering is shifting from writing code to designing the world agents work in. the real skill now is crafting the environment for the agents to thrive. maybe it’s time to update the job title.

it's consistent with what we found ~6 months ago. switching to code execution tools reduces our agents latency significantly x.com/jakeloo/status…

@Basat1936 @thirdweb it's fixed now. it was an issue with bad token price data

@cattybk @thirdweb it's been a wild journey together -- gonna miss the acre & sweetgreen days. excited for what you'll be doing next!

Friday was my last day at @thirdweb! I joined the team when it was 4 engineers in a discord server, and it’s been the most blessed experience going from 0 to one of the biggest development tools in web3. We built one of the best growth teams in the industry and I've been lucky enough to work with the best creative talent in tech. Forever grateful for @FurqanR, @jakeloo and @StevenBartlett for betting on me and building such a generational company. This is my 10th year in startups so I’m going to take a few weeks off to enjoy the summer in NYC before diving into my own thing. (if you wanna catch up, grab coffee or hear about what im doing next shoot me a dm!) ✌️

4x FASTER. we now default to eip7702 execution for server wallets instead of erc4337. sending to confirmation: 2 secs (~4x faster than 4337!). as fast as a EOA tx, but with gas sponsorship, atomic batching and session keys support!

we just open sourced engine-core 2 years 7 months of our learnings distilled into 25k lines of production Rust. this is the best thing I've ever built as an engineer. our first open source rust repo at @thirdweb. let me tell you about my baby:

The Dead Internet Theory claims all online content will be AI generated - destroying the internet experience. Blockchains will solve this problem. Our Founder and CEO @FurqanR explains how. 👇

@sharifshameem @FarzaTV exciting!

moved in to our new hq today w @FarzaTV

@FarzaTV @sharifshameem bullish

Me + @sharifshameem jumpstarted a company in the last 14 days. We had never worked together before. In the last 14-days we: > booked a flight to tokyo > figured out an idea out from 0 > built a product > made a lot of demos > found paying customers > discovered something we're excited about Long way to go. For those curious: I wrote an in-depth post about how we met nearly 10-years ago on HackerNews, how we prototyped in Japan over the 14-days, found a problem, stuff like that. Maybe it helps someone in similar spot: farza.com/14-days P.S: If you like the post, do let me know below. I'll keep writing updates! P.S.S: We're hiring fantastic engineers :).

making ai multiplayer multiplies intelligence it forces clear communication, and that will lead to better results this will be the norm for how work gets done

This is so exciting - LLMs, but for the physical world V-JEPA 2: real-world video in -> next action out LLMs: text in -> next token out Combining them is gonna be wild: LLMs as brains, V-JEPA as bodies. Robotic agents that plan and act are almost here

@atbeme tips for becoming 1000x engineer

I’m so excited for this weekend I’m going to write and share the first post about how I leverage AI to write almost 90% of my code I’ll be sharing two things: 1. My philosophy, principles, and strategies 2. A concrete starter repo that exemplifies an AI-optimized codebase

As companies scale up, they ship more slowly. Why? Coordination. It requires multiple people to ship. An AI agent works across the stack. From reading code and product specs to producing content. Zero coordination needed No more "finding time on your calendar". It just ships

@jmdagdelen @FurqanR @hthieblot it eliminates anything that needs cross-functional work: - Technical content writer: agents that understand code, product specs, and the writing style guide - Support: analyze, triage, and escalate and most importantly, it takes less than 1 week to build these agents

@FurqanR @hthieblot Can you elaborate with some examples of tasks that AI agents are doing that took teams before?

The wildest AI takes are "it's not good enough yet" or "it can't do X well." This completely ignores the exponential improvement curve we're on. If you don't believe every aspect of digital work will reach human-level quality soon, you're setting yourself up for failure. Agents are already handling tasks that required entire teams a few years ago. The building blocks for autonomous digital work is already here. Most people aren't ready for how fast this will impact every company on the planet. Jobs will transform, companies will become leaner, but we'll also see an explosion of new startups. We're entering the greatest entrepreneurial opportunity in decades.

@sharifshameem 🧑‍🍳

Every few years I get a good shot at materially accelerating AI timelines and this is the most exciting one yet

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